What's it like to be a Trinidadian Expat?
"The world was made to be explored and Trinidadian expats lived everywhere." And so there is Dérivé: A Trini Expat Comes Home by Jennylynd (Lindy) James, Ph.D. which is perhaps the perfect cure for any Trinidadian expat who grew up during that almost idyllic period in Trinidad (the early to late 80s) when it seemed as though the avalanche of social ills that now seem to season the headline of our newspapers, were still managed to be held at bay. On Amazon, where the book can be purchased it reads: " Dérivé (pronounced Dreevay) is French for drift, go off course, or gallivant. At nineteen, Jennylynd James drifted for the first time from her home in Trinidad and Tobago, to attend university abroad. It was the start of a lifelong passion for travel and adventure. This expatriate’s quest to find balance between the need for adventure and the desire to return home is described in a witty collection of stories of nostal...